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21 April 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 13:56 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A director at a Pakistani think-tank has said he will sue Greg Mortenson, the author of best-selling memoir Three Cups of Tea.<\/p>\n

In the book, the author said he was kidnapped by tribesmen in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan in 1996.<\/p>\n

Mansur Khan told the BBC he was “hurt” at the suggestion in the book’s sequel that he was the kidnapper.<\/p>\n

Three Cups of Tea is at the centre of a row after a US news programme suggested sections were fabricated.<\/p>\n

Mr Mortenson, the founder and executive director of the Central Asia Institute (CAI), has disputed the claims made by the makers of 60 Minutes<\/a>, accusing them of chasing audience ratings.<\/p>\n

Though not named in Three Cups of Tea, which describes Mr Mortenson’s mission to build schools across Central Asia, Mansur Khan appears in a picture in the sequel.<\/p>\n

Best-seller<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sequel is entitled Stones into Schools and, the UK’s Guardian newspaper reports<\/a>, a caption beneath the image suggests Mansur Khan was responsible for abducting Mr Mortenson.<\/p>\n

Mr Khan said that, as is a tribal custom, the entire family looked after Mr Mortenson and took very good care of him when he visited the area, where he came as a tourist.<\/p>\n

“I am just looking at the situation to see how to approach the court and what plea to take,” Mr Khan told the BBC’s Ilyas Khan, in Islamabad.<\/p>\n

He also disputed claims by Mr Mortenson that he had been held by the Taliban, saying that in July 1996 the Taliban had just taken over the Afghan capital, Kabul.<\/p>\n

Three Cups of Tea was published in 2006 and became a best-seller through word of mouth.<\/p>\n

The book describes how Mr Mortenson, a mountaineer, got lost while trekking in northern Pakistan, only to be rescued by the residents of a remote village. In the book, he says the kindness of those he encountered inspired him to build a school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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